Ward Boundaries Spark Temperance Challenge in Bedford
County board weighs ward boundary dispute as temperance advocates contest liquor license decisions. If Columbus Avenue defines the line, many elections and council acts since 1898 could be declared illegal. city clerks and the county recorder testified as records were examined.
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Second Wards
County Board of Commissioners
North I Street
Boundry
First
12Th Street
Corporation
Columbus Avenue
First Ward
Second Ward
W. E. Clark
Robert N. Palmer
John W. Harris
Bedford
Stevens
Allen
Lightning damages farms and homes across Monroe county
Sunday night storm causes extensive losses in Monroe county with a barn destroyed on John T. Eller’s farm, 20 tons of hay and 100 bushels of wheat ruined, and farm implements valued at 1000 dollars. A Bloomington home, two horses, and several residents suffer shocks. A church at Clear Spring is damaged and a cow killed. Two insured steers on Carl Short’s Springville farm die under a struck tree.
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Bedford
Monroe County
John T. Eller
Indian Creek Township
South Howe Street
Bloomington
Oliver Ellis
Home Telephone Company
Otto Buzzard
van Buren Township
Homer Hinkle
Homer West
12Th Street
Ernest Hunter
Stinesville
Hunter
Clear Spring
Leesville
Carl Short
Springville
Farmer Walker Dies in Log Load Accident Near Stanford
Stanley Walker a 49 year old farmer from Stanford was fatally injured Saturday afternoon while helping load logs on an Indianapolis Southern car near Stanford. A chain snapped as the log rolled back, he tripped and was crushed, suffering broken ribs a fractured skull and mangled lungs before medical help arrived.
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Stanley Walker
Stanford
Walker
Boys Go to Prison
Mitchell youths face reform school sentences after guilty pleas in circuit court. Fred Beasley, 15, admitted larceny of pants from Josiah Chess and was sent to Plainfield Reform School until age 21. Co-defendants John Fritts and Hugh Atkinson pleaded guilty to grand larceny for jewelry store robbery and received indeterminate reformatories of one to fourteen years after judges questioned their ages.
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Fred Beasley
Mitchell
Josiah Chess
Wilson
Beasley
Reform School For
Plainfield
John Fritts
Hugh Atkinson
Rainbolt
Tragic Dynamite Cap Incident Near Cheboygan
Mrs. Fred Williams of Bear Point Michigan severely injured and her seven year old son likely fatally hurt when a dynamite percussion cap in the boy’s hip pocket exploded as she spanked him for a minor offense. The boy had collected a cap while in a field with his father blowing stumps. The mother’s blow with a shingle caused the cap to explode tearing a large hole in the child’s hip. Mrs Williams lost two fingers and suffered facial injuries.
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Fred. Williams
Bear Point
Crooked Lake
Cheboygan
Mich
Bedford Man Slashed in Sullivan County Tragedy
William Allen a 35 year old former Bedford resident was killed in a drunken fight at Gilmour Sullivan County He allegedly attacked Joseph Crackenbush and Leonard Patrick acted as peacemaker Then Patrick stabbed Allen severing his jugular vein leading to his death Patrick and Crackenbush were jailed Investigations center on prior quarrel and the fatal confrontation at the card game scene
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William Allen
Bedford
Gilmour
Sullivan County
Allen
Joseph Crackenbush
Leonard Patrick
Crackenbush
Patrick
Sure Enough Freak Chicken
Mrs. Tevis Raybourne of Garrard County Kentucky owns a chicken with four legs and feet four wings two beaks one body and one neck. It can fly with either pair of wings and eat with either beak.
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Tevis Raybourne
Garrard County
Kentucky
Mrs Inman Undergoes Operation for Carbuncle
Mrs. S. R. Inman underwent a surgical removal of a large carbuncle on her back Monday. Dr. R. B. Short operated and anticipates a rapid recovery.
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S. R. Inman
R. B. Short
Lightning strikes multiple at old settlers reunion
At Kurtz under a porch at the Riderstore George Sutton and his brother Robert were struck by a bolt while several bystanders were spared. Their sister Rachel Weineger and distant relative John Sutton also felt shocks. The event raises questions about a possible magnetic kinship link and simultaneous nerve sensitivity. P A Dunihue plans to move his family from Harrodsburg to Bedford for schooling. Martha Johnson arrives from Martinsville to take a position in Indianapolis with son Charles Johnson joining in Kansas City. Robert Johnson to enter Manual Training High School. family to reside in Fletcher Place.
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Old Settlers
Kurtz
George Sutton
Robert Sutton
Rachel Weineger
John Sutton
P. A. Dunihue
Harrodsburg
Bedford
Bloomington
Martha Johnson
Martinsville
J. T. Freeland
Johnson
Indianapolis
Charles Johnson
Kansas City
Robert Johnson
Manual Training
Fletcher Place
Enoch Cheek Vindicated In Court Manslaughter Case
The court dismisses the manslaughter case against ENOCH CHEEK after legal proceedings conclude in a local court. The decision clears Cheek of allegations tied to the incident and ends the matter in this jurisdiction.
Cheek vindicated as manslaughter case dismissed in court
The Lawrence circuit court dismissed the manslaughter case against Enoch S. Cheek former Mitchell city marshal after Prosecutor Fletcher moved. Cheek had shot Link Hegland at the B and O depot in Mitchell on May 17 1906 while pursuing four men believed to be burglars. Cheek resigned as town marshal and plans to sue the B and O S W railway for 20000 alleging negligence and misled by a Seymour operator.
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Enoch S. Cheek
Mitchell
Lawrence
Fletcher
Cheek
Link Hegland
Seymour
Marshal Cheek
Charles Hegland
Cincinnati
Hegland
Horse Drowns After Flooded Ford Near Ft Ritner
James Smith a Wilcox general store clerk and a gentleman friend rode to a country ford near Ft Ritner. As heavy rain swelled the stream the buggy was swept away and the horse drowned while the men escaped to shore.
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James Smith
Wilcox
Tunnelton
Ft. Ritner
Coal Heavers Strike Sparks at Monon Bedford Yard
Labor Day disruption at the Monon in Bedford ends with mass firing of coal heavers after a stoppage. Police dispersal keeps peace as trains face delays. Local society notes include visits, a wedding in Ft Ritner, and social events. Bowen mentions Warns.
Picnic At Fairview Farm West of Bedford
A last Sunday picnic at Fairview Farm near Sunset in Bedford area featured Walter W. Quackenbush hosting with Cecil Joyce Urial Ada and extended Quackenbush and Pitman families. The gathering included meals, games and music before sheltering from threatened thunderstorm clouds.
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Fairview Farm
Bedford
Walter W. Quackenbush
Walter Quackenbush
Cecil
Joyce
Urial Quackenbush
Ada Quackenbush
Dalve Pitman
Lois
Leata
Luther
Will Pitman
Mona
August Splitgerber
Fred
Chas. W. Quackenbush
Noble
Mabel
Mary
Clyde Quackenbush
Florence Lingle
Damon
Orleans
Frank Quackenbush
Jean
Glyn
Joe
Lee
Frank
The Fitness Of Things
A city man vows to move to the country to enjoy birds blossoms and hay. He arrives to find a noisy night owl a hornet and a poisonous vine causing a hasty retreat to town saying it’s “the city, boys, for mine.”
Death of Charles Staggs in Hunting Trip Accident Near Oolitic
Charles Staggs aged 17 was killed when his double barrel shotgun slipped into an unpluggable core drill hole and discharged, hitting his chest as he rested. Witness William Chenault, 12, saw the tragedy. coroner ruled accidental death. The Staggs family has suffered multiple violent deaths since relocating to Indiana.
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Doc Staggs
Oolitic
Young Staggs
William Chenault
Staggs
Voyles
Young
Chenault
Indiana
Monroe County
William Staggs
Consolidated Stone Company
Cal Staggs
Hoosier
Dark Hollow
John Staggs
Bedford
Heltonville
Dot’ Staggs
Hopkins Cemetery
Charles Stages
Virginia Smith Rites Held After Infant Death At A parents Home
Virginia Smith eleven month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Smith died at 7 15 p m Monday at grandmother Mrs Harry Frances home in Oolitic after two weeks of summer complaint. Remains were moved to Washington Avenue home of Grandparents for a 2 o'clock funeral Wednesday. Also lists premium winners from Farmers Institute picnic including Will McDaniel Clarence Jackson Pearl Batman and others and a note on a Brooklyn broker seeking Supreme Court help to seal a woman's lips in relation to her remarks.
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Virginia
Albert Smith
Harry Frances
Oolitic
J. Frank Smith
Washington Avenue
Farmers Institute
Will McDaniel
Clarence Jackson
Miss Pearl Batman
Robert Woody
A. J. Weddle
J. P. Brenerman
A. M. Guthrie
H. J. Sheeks
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Wreck At Rivervale Delays Main Line
The B. and Co. wrecking outfit responded to a wreck at Rivervale this morning. The Mitchell engine backed into an extra, damaging the engine and several cars and blocking the main track.
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Rivervale
Mitchell
Tragic Death of Courtney Zaring in Hunting Accident
Courtney B. Zaring, 18, son of City Attorney James A. Zaring, was killed when a double barrel gun discharged as he dragged it from a boat on White River near the Waterworks station. He died instantly. funeral set for Friday at the Christian church with interment at Green Hill.
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James A. Zaring
White River
Young Zaring
Courtney
Clarence McNabb
John
John Thomas
McNabb
Thomas
Young McNabb
Zaring
John A. Rowe
Melvin Putnam
First Christian Church
Gentleman
Clarence
George McNabb
Harry Dunihue
Courtney Zaring
Water Works
West Sixteenth Street
Courtney B Zaring
Bedford High School
Christian Church
Melvin Putman
Glenn Carter
Harry Donihue
Samuel Fagan
Thomas Kern
Wilbur Glover
Green Hill
Murder Suspected in Boy's Death at White River
Coroner reports Otis McNeely 12 year old Campbellsburg youth did not drown. Autopsy shows no water in lungs or stomach. neck broken. Two witnesses Matthews and Childers gave conflicting stories. investigation to uncover the truth continues. Nearby Gospel meetings led by Barry Boyd announced for New Union.
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Otis McNeely
Campbellsburg
White River
Ft. Ritner
Walter Matthews
Harry Childers
Matthews
Childers
McNeely
Washington County
Barry
Ill
Robert Boyd
Lawrence County
New Union
Brother Boyd
Boyd
City sued for 2500 damage over sewerage failure
The rain Sunday night left the city defendant in a damage suit for 2500 dollars. Mrs. Bessie Ragsdale, represented by B Lowe, alleges the city’s inadequate sewerage caused flooding and damaged household goods.
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B. Lowe
Bessie Ragsdale
Seventeenth
K Streets
Police Nab Warrants After Crap Game Escape
Chief Gratzer, passing Gaussin's saloon rear, witnessed a crap game with three men of color, Alex Robinson, Ed Bowman, and Milt Maybery. They fled as he approached. money coins remained. Warrants were later issued for the players.
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Gratzer
Gaussin
Alex Robinson
Ed Bowman
Milt Maybery
Seben
Dicky Boy
Big Dick
Boston
Dedication Planned for First Christian Church Mitchel Indiana
The First Christian church of Mit chell Indiana will be formally dedicated Sunday September 8. Rev F M Rains of Cincinnati will lead events including Saturday at 7 30 p m Sunday School at 9 a m preaching at 10 30 and praise and communion at 3 0 o'clock
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First Christian Church
Mitchell
Indiana
F. M. Rains
Cincinnati
Former Bedford Boy Badly Hurt In Montana Mine
A. W. Fidler reports Arthur Fidler, about 20, native of Bedford, severely crushed about the hips by a slate fall in a Bozeman Montana gold mine. His partner was killed in the accident. The letter from Mrs Isaac Fidler confirms the incident and location.
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A. W. Fidler
Isaac Fidler
Montana
Arthur
Bozeman
Young Fidler
Bedford
Bad Man and Booze Alleged Drugged Entry of Church
An affidavit filed in the Circuit Court alleges Oscar Johnson, intoxicated, entered Old Union church in Indian Creek Township on the night of August 25 and chased the congregation outside. A bench warrant was issued by Judge Wilson to compel him to explain how he raised the devil in church.
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Oscar Johnson
Old Union Church
Indian Creek Township
Johnson
Wilson
Fishermen's Tent Burned on White River
While Jack Thompson and Elmer Reath were away from their tent catching minnows, a fire destroyed the tent and contents. Clothing and $28 in Thompson's cash were lost.
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Jack Thompson
Elmer Reath
White River
Thompson
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